EP2471329A1 - Contrôle d'encombrement de réseau de transport pour communications par liaison montante améliorée - Google Patents

Contrôle d'encombrement de réseau de transport pour communications par liaison montante améliorée

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EP2471329A1
EP2471329A1 EP10812394A EP10812394A EP2471329A1 EP 2471329 A1 EP2471329 A1 EP 2471329A1 EP 10812394 A EP10812394 A EP 10812394A EP 10812394 A EP10812394 A EP 10812394A EP 2471329 A1 EP2471329 A1 EP 2471329A1
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Johan Torsner
Sándor RÁCZ
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  • the technical field relates to radio telecommunications, and particularly, to enhanced uplink packet flow control.
  • a mobile radio communication system such as a UMTS (Universal Mobile Subscriber Identity
  • Mobile Telecommunication System type system, includes a mobile radio
  • High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) in operational 3G networks increases the downlink system capacity providing improved end-user experience by higher download speed and reduced round trip times.
  • E-DCH Enhanced Dedicated Channel
  • New Medium Access Control layers (MAC-e/es) were introduced to support High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) features like fast Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) with soft combining, reduced TTI length, and fast scheduling.
  • HARQ Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request
  • HSDPA High Speed Downlink Shared Channel
  • HSUPA High Speed Downlink Shared Channel
  • the E-DCH is dedicated to a user.
  • the transmission power is kept more or less fixed and rate adaptation is used.
  • this is not possible for HSUPA since the uplink is non-orthogonal, and therefore, fast power control is needed for fast link adaption.
  • Soft handover is not supported by HSDPA, while for HSUPA soft handover is used to decrease the interference from neighboring cells and to have macro diversity gain.
  • the transport network links between base stations and radio network controller (Iub interface) and between radio network controllers (Iur interface) can be a bottleneck in the radio access network for HSUPA because the increased air interface (Uu) capacity does not always come with similarly increased transport network capacity.
  • the cost of transport network links is high and may not decrease
  • TCP Transmission Control Protocol
  • HSUPA flow control can be used.
  • the goal of Enhanced Uplink flow control is to avoid congestion on the Iub interface between the RNC and Node-B, i.e., to avoid congestion in the transport network (TN).
  • TN transport network
  • the new control frame is a Transport network layer (TNL) Congestion Indication (TCI) control frame (CF) and the new information element is the TCI.
  • TNL Transport network layer
  • TCI Congestion Indication
  • CF Congestion Indication
  • the user equipment terminal can be connected to more than one cell in soft handover (SHO).
  • SHO soft handover
  • One of the SHO cells is the serving cell, and the remaining SHO cells are non-serving cells.
  • the radio links with the serving cell have the best radio quality, and the radio link with each non-serving cell also has acceptable radio quality.
  • Serving cell selection is based on the radio link quality in the downlink direction from radio network to UE. But in real world systems, the non- serving cell may have better radio link quality than the serving cell in the uplink direction from the UE to the radio network.
  • typical EUL flow control assumes that the serving cell is the best cell for both downlink and uplink radio communications with the UE.
  • the term "flow" is used and is associated with a physical layer communications link that carries packets between the RNC and the UE.
  • Fairness among the flows is guaranteed only when this best cell assumption is correct. Under this assumption and in a congestion condition in the transport network, typical EUL flow control has the non-serving cell drop or discard packets received from the UE to reduce the congestion. This is not a problem as long as the serving cell really is the best cell in the uplink direction because those same packets are usually properly received in the serving cell anyway, so the redundancy normally provided in the non-serving cell is not needed.
  • This packet dropping flow control is not appropriate when the non- serving cell uplink flow might have better quality then that for a flow to the serving cell.
  • the result in this packet dropping situation at the non-serving cell is the need for increased RLC retransmissions for the dropped packets, which ultimately results in poor end-user quality of service and unfair end-use of resources.
  • a method and apparatus are provided for controlling congestion in a radio access transport network that includes a radio network controller coupled to multiple base stations with each base station supporting one or more cells.
  • Mobile radio terminals communicate with the radio access transport network over an air interface.
  • a connection is established between a mobile radio terminal with at least two cells associated with the radio access transport network being used to support uplink radio communication from the mobile radio terminal, one of the cells corresponding to a serving cell for the uplink radio communication and another of the cells being a non- serving cell for the uplink radio communication.
  • the radio access transport network supports soft handover in the uplink, and the first and second uplink flows are part of soft handover of the connection in the uplink.
  • the serving cell typically provides better downlink radio signal quality for the connection than the non-serving cell and the non- serving cell provides better uplink radio signal quality for the connection than the serving cell.
  • a congestion condition in the radio access transport network for the second radio uplink flow is detected when the second radio uplink flow is associated with a better radio link quality than radio link quality associated with the first radio uplink flow, then a message is generated for transmission to the mobile radio terminal to reduce a rate at which the mobile radio terminal transmits data for the connection to the radio access transport network rather than the non-serving cell discarding uplink data packets received from the mobile terminal.
  • the message is sent to the mobile radio terminal via the serving cell to reduce a rate at which the mobile radio terminal transmits data for the connection to the radio access transport network.
  • the better radio link quality may, for example, be determined based on a data rate associated with the first uplink flow and a data rate associated with the second uplink flow such that the uplink flow with the higher data rate has the better flow quality.
  • the message to the mobile radio terminal to reduce a rate at which the mobile radio terminal transmits data for the connection may be a lower absolute grant message
  • the congestion control message is a transport network congestion indicator
  • the transport network congestion indicator is sent to the serving cell for transmission to the mobile radio terminal.
  • the base station associated with the non-serving cell discards a fraction of second uplink flow data packets from the mobile radio terminal in order to reduce the detected congestion for the second uplink flow.
  • Figure 1 is a schematic block diagram illustrating a wireless
  • Figure 2 is a block diagram illustrating a non-limiting example of a
  • Figure 3 is a block diagram illustrating a non-limiting example of an EUL flow control architecture and protocol stack
  • Figure 4 is a diagram illustrating a transport network congestion situation for uplink flows from serving and non-serving cells
  • Figure 5 illustrates an example of EUL flow control for the congestion situation in Figure 4.
  • Figure 6 illustrates an example of how to improve performance when controlling the congestion situation in Figure 4.
  • Figure 7 is a flowchart illustrating non-limiting example procedures for carrying out the approach illustrated in Figure 6;
  • Figure 8 is a non-limiting example function block diagram of a node that may be used to implement the procedures of Figure 7.
  • control-related functional blocks may be provided through the use of electronic circuitry such as dedicated hardware as well as computer hardware capable of executing software.
  • the functions may be provided by a single dedicated processor, by a single shared processor, or by a plurality of individual processors, some of which may be shared or distributed.
  • a processor or controller may include, without limitation, digital signal processor (DSP) hardware, ASIC hardware, read only memory (ROM), random access memory (RAM), and/or other storage media.
  • DSP digital signal processor
  • ASIC application specific integrated circuitry
  • ROM read only memory
  • RAM random access memory
  • FIG. 1 depicts a non-limiting, example communication system 100 comprising a Radio Access Network (RAN) shown as a dashed ellipse, such as the UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN) architecture, comprising two Radio Base Station (RBS) 15A and 15B connected to one or more Radio Network Controllers (RNCs) 10.
  • the radio access network is connected to a Core Network 12.
  • the radio access network and the core network provide communication and control for a plurality of user equipments (UE) 18 that each uses downlink (DL) channels and uplink (UL) channels.
  • UE user equipments
  • Each base station 20 coordinates radio communications in one or more cells.
  • the radio base stations may be for example an access point, a Node B, an evolved Node B (eNodeB) and/or a base transceiver station, Access Point Base Station, base station router, etc. depending on the radio access technology and terminology used.
  • a cell covers a geographical area and is identified by a unique identity broadcast in the cell by its base station. There may be more than one cell covering the same geographical area, and in this case, two of the base station cells may be co-sited.
  • Each Radio Network Controller (RNC) 10 controls radio resources and radio connectivity within a set of cells.
  • a UE or mobile radio terminal connection logically represents the communication between a UE and one cell in the radio access network, and a radio link provides the actual physical radio connection between the UE and a base station associated with the cell. All cells with a radio link to/from a UE belong to the active set of that UE. An active set of base stations corresponds to the set of base stations that have a cell with a radio link with the UE.
  • the user equipment 18 may be represented e.g. by a mobile station, a wireless communication terminal, a mobile cellular telephone, a Personal Communications Systems terminal, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), a laptop, a computer, or any other kind of device capable of radio
  • one or more radio base stations transmit to a
  • the user equipments 18 A and 18B transmit data to one or more radio base stations 15 at respective power level.
  • base station 15A is the serving base station because it enjoys the best downlink radio link quality to the UE 18A.
  • Figure 1 shows interfaces connecting the different nodes in the UTRAN.
  • the Iur interface is defined for communications between RNCs 10.
  • the Iub interface is defined for communications between the RNC 10 and its base stations 15A and 15B.
  • User data is transported on transport bearers over these interfaces. Depending on the transport network used, these transport bearers may be mapped to AAL2 connections (in case of an ATM-based transport network) or UDP connections (in case of an IP- based transport network). Control messages are transported using the same bearers as data over Iub.
  • radio bearers for signalling and data respectively are established between the serving RNC and the UE. These signalling radio bearers carry radio resource control (RRC) messages between a serving RNC and the UE and are sent via all cells in the UE 's active set
  • RRC radio resource control
  • the communication system 100 is described below as a HSDPA/HSUPA communication system.
  • the technology in this application may be used in other packet based communications systems such as E- UTRAN, LTE, Code division multiple access (CDMA), Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA), CDMA 2000, High Speed Uplink Packet Data Access (HSUPA), High Data Rate (HDR), TD-SCDMA, WiMax, etc.
  • Nodes and protocol layers that may be involved in the HSUPA and EUL flow control (FC) are depicted in Figure 2.
  • Figure 2 also shows the location of the FC related functionalities.
  • the task of the flow control in the Node B is to regulate the transfer of MAC-es Protocol Data Units (PDUs) on the lub/lur Transport Network (TN) towards the serving RNC (SRNC) for that flow.
  • PDUs Protocol Data Units
  • SRNC serving RNC
  • a flow corresponds to this MAC-es PDU stream.
  • Several of these flows may share the same air interface or be impacted by the same transport network (TN) congestion bottleneck.
  • TN transport network
  • flow control is needed only when the TN limits performance.
  • UE User Equipment
  • a UE When a UE is in SHO, it has as many flows over the transport network (TN) as the number of Node Bs involved in the SHO.
  • TN transport network
  • the transport network provides transmission between the Node B and
  • ATM/AAL2 ATM Adaptation Layer 2
  • UDP/IP User Datagram
  • Protocol/Internet Protocol are example transport protocols.
  • a bottleneck in the transport network may occur at a point of aggregation and also in the nodes themselves on interface cards.
  • the transport network may support Transport Network Layer (TNL) QoS differentiation, which allows for different controlled flows to have different service over the transport network based on, e.g., subscription or service.
  • TNL Transport Network Layer
  • Different flows of the same Node B may experience a bottleneck at different parts of the network, not only due to different TNL QoS levels, but also due to some flows being transmitted over the Iur interface or over parallel Iub links.
  • flows must be able to efficiently use the changing transport network capacity remaining from high priority flows to ensure efficient utilization of the transport network.
  • the flow control must be capable of regulating the flows in this changing environment and must maintain high end-user throughput and fairness while maintaining low end-to-end delay for delay sensitive applications, e.g., gaming over best effort HSUPA.
  • the HSUPA air interface scheduler (the Uu scheduler in Figure 2) sends scheduling grants to the UE and receives scheduling requests from the UE.
  • AGs can be sent only by the serving cell and transmitted over the E-DCH Absolute Grant Channel (E-AGCH), which is a shared resource among all users of the cell.
  • E-AGCH E-DCH Absolute Grant Channel
  • the AG defines how many bits can be transmitted every transmission time interval (TTI), and thus a maximum limit of the data rate.
  • TTI transmission time interval
  • the AG is valid until a new scheduling grant is received.
  • the RG can modify this data rate up/down in the serving cell but only down in the non-serving cell.
  • the UE uses a flag called a "Happy Bit" to indicate whether it would benefit from a higher rate grant or not.
  • the MAC-e/es protocol layers in the UE are responsible for HARQ and the transport format selection according to the scheduling grants.
  • the created MAC-e PDU is transmitted over the air interface to the Node B.
  • the MAC-e protocol layer in the Node B demultiplexes the MAC-e PDUs to MAC-es PDUs which are transmitted over the transport network to the SRNC.
  • the MAC-es protocol layer in the RNC handles the effect of the SHO by reordering, duplicate removing, and macro combining to ensure in-sequence-delivery for the Radio Link Control (RLC) protocol layer.
  • RLC Radio Link Control
  • MAC-es While a connected UE may have several (MAC-es) flows multiplexed in one MAC-e flow, only one AG is assigned to the UE. This makes the congestion control challenging when some flows belonging to the same UE experience transport network congestion while others do not. In this case, the whole MAC-e flow can be treated as congested.
  • RLC AM does not include congestion control functionality because it assumes that RLC PDUs are transmitted by the MAC-d layer according to the available capacity.
  • the RLC status messages which are sent regularly, trigger retransmission of all missing PDUs. This may result in unnecessary retransmissions because new status messages are sent before the retransmitted PDUs arrive, especially when there is long round trip time.
  • Several unsuccessful retransmissions trigger an RLC reset, and the whole RLC window is discarded.
  • the end-user IP packets never get lost in the transport network, unless the congestion causes RLC reset, and thus, TCP cannot detect transport network congestion based on duplicate acknowledgements.
  • TCP "slow start" rapidly increases the TCP window size to its maximum, and it is normally kept at a maximum during the whole transmission unless a bottleneck other than the transport network is experienced. Too many retransmissions of the same PDU usually causes a TCP timeout that degrades the TCP efficiency. Consequently, TCP cannot control transport network congestion efficiently and a system-specific congestion control solution is needed.
  • Frame loss and the resulting RLC retransmission needs to be minimized because it significantly increases the delay variation among end-users.
  • the transport network delay also needs to be kept low due to delay sensitive applications over HSUPA and to minimize control loop delay for flow control and RLC.
  • the Iub/Iur E-DCH UL data frame contains the user data, the Frame Sequence Number (FSN), the Connection Frame Number (CFN), and Subframe Number.
  • the CFN and Sub-frame Number are used for PDU reordering, but can also be used to calculate a Delay Reference Time (DRT) which defines when the data frame was sent from Node B.
  • DRT Delay Reference Time
  • the FSN and DRT can be used to detect congestion in the transport network. Apart from congestion detection based on data frame fields, transport protocol specific congestion detection techniques may also be used.
  • TNL Congestion Indication Control Frame (TCI CF) may be used for reporting the congestion detected in SRNC.
  • the TCI contains a congestion status field, which can indicate no congestion and congestion due to delay build-up or due to frame loss.
  • HSDPA flow control and HSUPA flow control are similar, there are differences between them.
  • HSUPA can be in SHO, while HSDPA not. This means that for the same UE there can be several (one serving and zero or more non-serving) flows to be controlled.
  • Figure 3 illustrates a non-limiting example flow control architecture.
  • the flow control is designed to provide fair throughput sharing among the flows sharing the same transport network bottleneck when the transport network is limiting the
  • the behavior of flows is regulated by the Uu scheduler in Node-B(s) until a transport network congestion is detected. As long as the transport network is not a bottleneck, the Uu scheduler tries to use the air interface as much as possible and to provide fairness among the flows.
  • the Uu scheduler preferably increases the granted bit rate with a reasonable speed to avoid large interference peaks and to avoid sudden overload of the transport network.
  • AIMD additive increase multiplicative decrease
  • a multiplication with a coefficient provides the multiplicative decrease and a constant increase rate after reduction provides the additive increase property.
  • the AIMD property is met only for the serving cell. However, a MAC-e PDU is normally received in the serving cell with a higher probability, thus the end-user fairness is dominated by the serving cell.
  • the transport network congestion detection and notification may be performed whenever a data frame arrives at the SRNC.
  • Two non-limiting example congestion detection methods may be used.
  • One is FSN gap detection where a 4-bit FSN in the data frame can be used to detect lost data frames.
  • the other is Dynamic Delay Detection (DDD) where the Node B DRT is compared to a similar reference counter in the SRNC when the data frame is received. The difference between the two counters increases when the transport network bottleneck buffer builds up. Congestion is detected when this difference increases too much compared to a minimum difference.
  • the detected congestion and its severity are reported to the Node B by a TCI CF if no TCI CF was sent for a given time.
  • a TCI Whenever a TCI is received by the Node B, it triggers a congestion action by the flow controller. Depending on whether it is a serving cell flow or a non-serving cell flow, a rate reduce request is issued to the Uu scheduler or to the Frame dropping functionality shown in Figure 3.
  • a TCI received in the non-serving cell does not trigger rate reduction by a relative grant because a MAC-e PDU is assumed will be received in the best cell (usually the serving cell) with a higher probability. Consequently, if the bit rate is reduced due to transport network congestion limitations in the non-serving cell, the bit rate of the end-user might be reduced unnecessarily. However, congestion action still needs to be taken, and thus, part of the received MAC-e PDUs are dropped or discarded. If these PDUs are not received in the serving-cell, then the RLC AM retransmits them.
  • FIG 4 is a diagram illustrating a transport network congestion situation for uplink flows from serving and non-serving cells.
  • the UE communicates with two cells from two different Node-Bs 15A and 15B because it is using uplink soft handover.
  • the serving cell corresponds to Node-B 15 A
  • the non-serving cell corresponds to Node-B 15B.
  • the non-serving cell has a better radio quality than the serving cell in the uplink.
  • the uplink flow bit rate to the RNC 10 from non-serving cell is higher than the uplink flow bit rate from the serving cell to the RNC 10.
  • the thickness of the line illustrates the bit rate of the data flow between each Node-B and the RNC.
  • FIG. 5 illustrates an example of a typical EUL flow control for the congestion situation in Figure 4.
  • Each flow has transport network congestion detection functionality 22A, 22B in the RNC 10 to detect transport network congestion.
  • the typical Node-B EUL flow control reacts differently to the TCI control frame depending whether it is for a serving cell flow or a non-serving cell flow.
  • the typical EUL flow control starts to drop some fraction of incoming packets to reduce the bit rate of that flow towards the RNC. See the illustration on the right side of Figure 5. By dropping packets, the EUL flow control resolves the transport network congestion. But the drawback with this approach is that correctly-received packets are dropped which can result in extensive retransmissions and poor end-user quality when the non-serving cell is the best cell in terms of radio communications quality in the uplink direction for this UE connection.
  • Figure 6 illustrates an example of how to improve performance when controlling the congestion situation in Figure 4.
  • the non-serving cell flow has a higher bit rate that the serving cell flow (again indicated by the thicker line), and congestion is detected in block 22B for the non-serving flow.
  • the TCI is sent to the serving cell Node-B 15A as shown at the right side of Figure 6.
  • the bit rate of this flow is reduced.
  • one way to reduce the uplink flow's bit rate is for the uplink flow controller in the serving cell Node-B 15 A to respond to the TCI by sending a lower Absolute Grant (AG) to the UE 18A.
  • AG Absolute Grant
  • the TN congestion detection functionality 22A, 22B in the RNC may identify the situation when the TCI should be sent to serving cell instead of non-serving cell using measurement information. For example, the bit rate of each flow coming from the same UE is measured, e.g., by counting the number of incoming packets (amount of arrived bytes) and calculating a corresponding bit rate regularly. The measured bit rate is the amount of data arrived within a preset time period divided by that time period. When transport network congestion is detected, then based on the measured flow's bit rate, the destination of the TCIs is checked.
  • the TN congestion detector 22B sends a TCI to the serving cell. Otherwise, the TCI is sent to the corresponding cell (the cell which is connected to the RNC by the congested TN link).
  • a robust method is used in bit rate comparison based on current and previous measured bit rates.
  • FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating non-limiting example procedures for carrying out the approach illustrated in Figure 6.
  • a connection is established with two or more cells supporting uplink communication including two uplink flows #1 and #2: one serving cell and at least one non-serving cell (step Sl).
  • the congestion is monitored in the radio access transport network for uplink flow #1 supported by the serving cell and uplink flow #2 supported by the non-serving cell (step S2).
  • the uplink flow #2 is determined to be currently providing a better uplink flow quality than the uplink flow #1 for this connection (step S3).
  • a congestion condition is detected in the transport network for the uplink flow #2 (step S4).
  • a message is then sent to the UE to reduce a rate at which the UE transmits data on the uplink (step S5).
  • FIG 8 is a non-limiting example function block diagram of a node that may be used to implement the procedures of Figure 7.
  • the RNC 10 includes a congestion controller 40, a congestion detector 42, and a signal/flow quality detector 44.
  • the signal/flow quality detector 44 monitors the quality of the uplink flows from the serving and non-serving cells by monitoring for example each flow's signal strength, signal-to-noise ratio, error rate, etc., and provides the quality values to the controller 40.
  • the congestion detector 42 monitors the congestion levels for each flow using for example the technique described above and provides the detected congestion levels for each flow to the controller 40. Based on the congestion levels and the best cell quality information, the controller 40 may send out a congestion control signal, e.g., a TCI.
  • a congestion control signal e.g., a TCI.
  • the technology described above takes into account the fact that the non- serving cell can be the best cell for uplink communications with the UE with reasonably high probability even though the serving cell is chosen based on downlink radio quality. In this case, performance is improved by better handling of congestion (rate reduction instead of frame dropping), fairness is improved because all the flows are behaving following AIMD. As a result, at least the best cell is always AIMD.
  • the technology is also relatively easy to implement and does not require a change to existing standards.

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Pour une connexion radio mobile comportant au moins deux flux de données montantes, une détermination est faite pour savoir si l'un des flux de données montantes provenant d'une cellule de non-service présente une meilleure qualité de liaison radio que l'autre flux de données montantes provenant d'une cellule de service. Une condition d'encombrement dans le réseau de transport d'accès radio est surveillée pour ces flux de données montantes. Si un encombrement dans le réseau de transport d'accès radio pour le flux de données montantes de cellule de non-service est détecté lorsque ce flux de données montantes est associé à la meilleure qualité de liaison radio, un message est alors généré et transmis au terminal radio mobile pour réduire le débit auquel le terminal radio mobile transmet des données pour la connexion au réseau de transport d'accès radio, plutôt que de voir la cellule de non-service rejeter des paquets de données.
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